File your request online 

Click on Request for Director's Review in the blue box at right. File your request online and receive your case number and process instructions immediately. Just make sure your email address is typed in the form correctly. Have the allocation letter from your employer in pdf format available to upload into the form. Upload just the letter only, other documents can be submitted later. It's easy and fast!

To withdraw your Director's review request, see blue box at right.

NOTE: Salary is not an allocating criterion and cannot be considered for a Director’s Review.

More information about Director's reviews

WAC-357-49-010 details the actions for which individuals may request a Director’s review. The Director’s review is the first step in the appeal process. Director’s review decisions may be appealed to the Personnel Resources Board in accordance with Chapter 357-52 WAC.

• Q & A overview
• Timeliness 
• The purpose of reviewing a position's allocation
• Key documents used for an allocation review
• Documents used for other Director's reviews
• Process for a Director's review of an allocation
• Director's review decisions

Director's Review Open and Closed Requests

After the July 1, 2019, implementation of the new Information Technology Professional Structure (ITPS), the State HR Division received 1,044 requests for a Director’s review. Initial IT allocation cases were submitted by agencies and/or employees that disagreed with the initial ITPS allocation determinations. The graph below represents IT and Non-IT requests received and closed. Specifically, the green bar represents all prior and current pending cases received up to that month and the blue bar represents cases closed within that month.

Each case is thoroughly reviewed and the DR Specialists do not rush to a conclusion. It is not possible to provide an expected date of completion as each case is unique and the time frame to complete a review varies and is unknown until the review occurs. DR Specialists have been assigned agencies and IT cases from the same work unit are grouped together, therefore, cases may not be reviewed in the order they are received.